William Montgomery

William Montgomery (3 August 1736-1 May 1816) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-PA) from 1793 to 1795.

Biography
William Montgomery was born in Mill Creek Hundred, Delaware in 1736, and he served as a militia colonel during the American Revolutionary War. He moved to Northumberland County, Pennsylvania in 1776 and was elected to the State Assembly in 1779, voting to abolish the importation of slaves into Pennsylvania in 1780. In 1785, he became presiding judge of Northumberland and Luzerne Counties, and he joined the State Senate in 1790. He went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1793 to 1795, and he was a presidential elector in 1804 to 1808, although he missed both ballots due to falling ill. He died in 1816.